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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on January 29, 2009, 09:55:17 AM
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WASHINGTON – States are not doing what it takes to keep good teachers and remove bad ones, a national study found.
Only Iowa and New Mexico require any evidence that public school teachers are effective before granting them tenure, according to the review released Thursday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.
"States can help districts do much more to ensure that the right teachers stay and the right teachers leave," said Kate Walsh, president of the Washington-based nonpartisan group.
Hiring and firing teachers is done locally in more than 14,000 school districts nationwide. But state law governs virtually every aspect of teaching, including how and when teachers obtain tenure, which protects teachers from being fired.
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"No district-union contract in America states that bad teachers can never be fired from their jobs," said Segun Eubanks, NEA's director of teacher quality. "Yet too often, district-teacher union contracts are blamed for inadequate, ineffective and misused teacher evaluation systems."
We don't need no education. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090129/ap_on_re_us/teacher_quality)
Bullshit, if the teachers unions had their way, teachers would be hired with tenure. You can blame the states if you want, but the only reason they may not do teacher audits is because of fear of the unions. And then there is that little fact that most states are under the control of dems, which puts them under control of unions.
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Tenure should be non-existant in elementary and secondary schools. Why should a teacher who has taught for 20 years be allowed to be held to a lower standard? There are teachers who consistently improve throughout their career and teachers who stagnate. Get rid of the dead wood.
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the problem we have is that the first cure for any problem is alwyas more centralization. The cure should be more parental authority.